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MAXIMILIAN M. GOLDBERG, OF DAYTON, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO THE NATIONAL CASH REGISTER COMPANY, OF DAYTON, OHIO.

REGISTERING AND RECORDING MECHANISM.

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Patented Jan. 6, 1920.

A plication flled July a, 1915. Serial no. cacao.

To all whom it mayconcem:

Be it known that I, MAXIMIIJAN M. GOLDBERG, a citizen of the United States, residing at Dayton, in the county of Montgomery and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Registering and Recording Mechanism, of which I declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description.

The great desideratum in large commercial establishments having a number of departments with a number of clerks in each department is to be able quickly to ascertain the amount of business done by each clerk, in each department, and under each cashier, and to obtain detailed information as to the amount of the different kinds of business, such as cash and credit, transacted. At the present time in large commercial establishments, such as department stores, where duplicate sales slips are made out for each purchase a part of each slip being given to the customer as the receipt for the amount of purchase, while the duplicate portion thereof is retained in the store, these clerks cashiers, and department totals and the totals of the transactions of different classes are ascertained by the auditing force checking over the duplicates. By this method of ascertaining the various totals it will be obvious'that econsiderable force is required for the auditing of these slips and it is the principal obj ect of this invention to provide means upon which a record is made at the time of the sale which means afterward is used for controlling the entry of the amounts of the various sales upon a plurality of' totalizers representing the various departments of the establishment, the clerks and cashiers assi ed to the different departments and t e various classes of transactions. In the preferred form of embodiment disclosed herein electrically operated means under the control of the record means is employed for controlling the selection of the totahzers for operation and for controlling the difl'erential movement of the actuating means for the accumulators.

It is one of the objects of this invention to provide novel electrical means and circuits for controlling the differential movement of the actuating mechanism.

It is also an object of this invention to provide a simple and improved system of electrical wiring and connections for selecting the totalizers for operation under the control of the record means.

Incidental to the provision of electrical means and circuits for controlling the extent of movement of the actuating mechanism, it was one of the objects of this invention to produce but one momentary electrical impulse in each of the circuits upon each cycle of operation of the machine, one momentary impulse in a circuit being sufficient for the performance of the function of the circuit.

A still further object of this invention is to provide an improved recording mechamsm comprising a printin drum which may be rolled over the tota izers to record the amounts accumulated on the latter.

With these and incidental objects in view, the invention consists in certain novel features of construction and combinations of parts, the essential elements of which are set forth in appended claims, and a preferred form of embodiment of which is hereinafter described with reference to the. drawings which accompany and form part of the specification.

Of the said drawings Figures 1 and 1 combined constitute a front elevation of the machine embodying the resent invention. 7

"Figs. 2 and 2 combined constitute a top plan view of the machine and shows but one of the five'rows' of totalizers.

Figs. 3 and 3 combined constitute a longitudinal vertical section through the machine taken on the line A--A of Figs. 2 and 2.

Figs. 4 and 4 (Sheets 7 and 8) combined constitute an enlarged detail longitudinal sectional view taken through one of the rows of totalizers as on the lineB-B of Figs. 2 and 2 7 Figs. 5 and 5 (Sheets 7 and 8) combined constitute a full sized detail longitudinal vertical section taken alon one of the differential units for a row 0 totalizers.

Figs. 6 and 6 combined constitute a detail longitudinal vertical section through the machine being taken on the line C--C of Fig. 7- i Fig. 7 is a detail transverse sectional view through the machine being taken on the line DD of Fig. 2 and two of the rows of i STATES PATENT OFFICE clerks iransaction totalizers being broken awa F g. 8 is an enlarged detail cross sectional view taken through three of the totalizers.

Fig. 9 is an enlarged detail top plan view of three of the totalizers.

Fig. 9 is a detail View of one of the transfenunits shown in tripped position.

' Fig. '10 is a full sized detail end view of one of the commutators employed to com plete a circuit under the control of the amount perforations in the record strip for energizing an electro-magnet normally maintaining an operative relation between the difl'erential mechanism and the driving mechanism.

Fig. 11 is an enlarged cross sectional view through one of the commutators, the section being taken on the line F-F of Fig. 10.

Fig. 12 is a full sized cross sectional view through the contact pin box.

Fig. 13 is a transverse sectional view through one of the clutches normally con necting one of the differentially rotatable shafts to the driving mechanism.

Fig. 14 is a transverse vertical section taken through the record strip storage roll and shows the frictional device for driving the same.

Fig. 15 is a cross sectional View through the devices controlled by the perforations in the record strip representing the classes of transactions for selectively establishing electrical connections between the electromagnets retaining the row of clerks totalizers, employed to accumulate the individual clerks cash, charge and C. O. D. transactions, out of engagement with the actuating racks.

Figs. 16 to 20 inclusive, are enlarged perspective views of the conducting disks comprising one of the commutators.

Fig. 21 is an enlarged perspective view of one of the end disks of a commutator.

Fig. 22 is an enlarged perspective View of one of the assembled commutators.

Fig. 23 is an enlarged detail cross sectional view through the sleeve upon which one of the commutators is mounted.

Fig. 24 is a detail cross sectional view taken on the line GG of Fig. 2 and showing the motor locking device and the means for closin the motor circuit.

Fig. 25 1s a top plan view of a portion of the perforated record strip.

F1g. 26 shows an illustrative form of rec- 0rd printed from the totalizers.

Fig. 27 is a detail view of one of the cams and levers for operating resetting bars for the totalizers.

Fig. 28 is a diagrammatical view of the various electrical circuits and connections.

In order that the detailed description may be followed to better advantage a general statement will be given here of the operation of the specific embodiment of die invention shown andthe system will be described as being applied to department stores, but it is to be understood that the rnvention'about to be described may with equal facility be used in any other large commercial establishments and in many other relations. The invention as a whole or any part thereof is, therefore, capable of use in other e1nbodiments without constituting a departure from the scope of the invention.

At the present time a great many of the large department stores have employed cashier-inspectors each having several departments assigned to them. As each sale is made the clerk forwards the goods and sales slip to the cashier-inspector, who is conveniently located, and it is the duty of the cashier-inspector to compare the goods With the entries made on the sales slip. If they correspond one portion of the sales slip is wrapped with the goods and returned to the clerk who hands them to the customer while the other portion of the slip having thereon a duplicate of the data entered upon the sales slip wrapped with the goods is retained by the cashier-inspector. The latter at the end of the day turns them in to the auditing department so that they may be audited in order to ascertain the departmental, the cashiers, and clerks totals, and the totals of the different classes of transactions. In a great many instances these cashiers are provided with machines which record the total of the purchases upon the original and duplicate portions of the sales slips.

his cashier-inspector system, just described, so far as it goes is good for department stores but the serious objection to this system is that it requires a large auditing force in order to find out the various totals.

With the present system described herein a record controlled strip is used which strip is perforated at various positions by any suitable mechanism at the time of mak ing the sale or at any other desired time, the perforations for each sale in accordance to their location representing the clerk making the sale, the department to which the clerk belongs, the cashier under which the clerk operates, the class of transactions to which the sale belongs, and the amount of the sale. Each sale thus handled by the cashier inspector would be entered upon this strip which at the close of the days business is taken to the auditors department and run through the machine of the present invention. 7

In the present invention there is one cash, one charge, one C. O. D. and one grand totalizer for each clerk, one totalizer for each department, one totalizer for each cashier, and one grand totalizer for each class of transactions. There is also one to talizer or accounting device in which the number of the. perforating machine from which the record strip is taken is entered. Application for Letters Patent of the United States, Serial No. 86087, filed Mar. 2 3, 1916, by Maximilian M. Goldberg fully shows and describes a perforating machine adapted to perforate a record strip for controlling the machine embodying the present invention. The totalizcrs in the present invention are arranged in rows and actuating mechanisms comprising sets of racks, are provided for each row.

The actuating racks of like denomination are moveddifferentially and to like extents by differentially rotatable shafts common thereto. The diflerentiall rotatable shafts are driven through clutch mechanismsv by the driving mechanism. The totalizers are retained outof engagement with the racks during the differential movement of the latter from normal position by electromiagnets.

' The driving mechanism of the machine'is continuously operated while the record strip is run through the machine, the machine being automatically stopped under the control of the record strip when the last perforated record in the record. strip is registered in the machine. Upon each cycle of operation of the machine, contact pins are lowered and those pins which are in line or registry with the perforations in the strip pass through the same and contact with contact plates under the strip. commutator devices, one for each denominational series of amount contact pins are rotated by the driving mechanism and when these devices have moved extents corresponding to the amounts represented by the perforations through which theamount contact pins pass, they complete electric circuits to energize electromagnets which, when energized, effect the disconnection of the clutches through which the driving mechanismrotates the differentially rotatable shafts for the sets of actuating racks. In this manner the shafts and the sets of racks are arrested in different positions corresponding 1 the perforations representing the amoun -t; {i 7 After the sets if-actuating racks have been differentially positioned and before they begin their return movement to normal position, a switch is closed to complete circuits through the electro-magnets retaining the totalizers corresponding to the contact pins passing through the perforations representing the totalizers out of engagement with the sets of actuating racks. When these electromagnets for the totalizers are energized the totalizers move into engagement with the racks so that when the latter are restored to normal position they will enter on the engaged totalizers the amount of the transaction. After the actuating racks have been restored to normal position the contact pins are elevated and the stri is fed so as to bring the perforations o the next record into position to control the machine upon the next cycle of operation of the latter.

The totalizers are adapted to print a record on a sheet of paper. The. paper is wrapped about a printing drum mounted in a shding frame, which is adapted to be moved over the totalizers. When it is desired'to print from the totalizers the frame is manually moved across the totalizers, the drum being rotated through a rack and gear so that the paper rolls over the totalizers to print from the latter.

All of the totalizers may be reset simultaneously to zero position after each record strip or anynumber of record strips is run through themaehine. For this purpose a manually operated device has suitable connections to the resetting devices for the totalizers to rotate the latter to zero whenever the manually operated device is operated.

Operating mechanism.

The machine for illustrative purposes is shown as equipped with an electric motor of the well known type shown and described in Letters Patent of the United States, No. 923,857, granted to Charles F. Kettering on June 8, 1909, together with the Letters Patent of the United States No. 1,144,418, ranted to Charles F. Kettering and Wm. A.

hryst June 29, 1915. It is not considered necessary to describe the motor in detail here as a detailed description of the same may be had by reference to the above mentioned patents. It is to be understood that it is notgintcnded to limit the present invention to use with the particular electric motor shown and described or to use with any electric motor at all as it is obvious that any suitable form of operating mechanism may be Employed.

The armature (not shown) of the motor d9 (Fig. 1 is fastened on a shaft 50 integral with a worm 51 which meshes with a curved wormwheel or gear 52. The wormgear 52 is loosely mounted on a shaft 53 (Figs. 1 and 2 1 which is supported near its left hand end in a frame 54 and near its right hand end in an arm or bracket 55 projecting from a front frame 56 of the machine. The worm-gear 52 is rigidly connected to a hollow clutch member 57 within which is rigidly mounted on the shaft 53 a second clutch member (not shown). Rigidly mounted on the shaft 53 is a disk 58 and a disk59 loose on the shaft 53 carries rollers (not shown) cooperating with spring plungers (not. shown) for connecting the two clutch members together when the disk 59 is moved relatively to the disk 58 by the spring plungers upon release of the machine. A disk 60 is also loosely mounted on the shaft 53 and is connected to the disk 58 by 

